U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., joined a bipartisan group of senators in introducing S.3504, the Creating High-quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic Care Act of 2016, a bill to strengthen and improve health outcomes for seniors enrolled in Medicare who are living with chronic conditions.
 
The bill is being introduced by Isakson, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee’s Chronic Care working group, along with Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and U.S. Senator Mark Warner, D-Va., who co-chairs the working group with Isakson.
 
“Medicare shouldn’t just be a program that pays the bills when you get sick,” said Isakson, a member of the two Senate committees with oversight of health care policy. “It should also encourage your doctors to work with you to keep you healthy and out of the hospital by providing high quality, patient-centered care.”
 
“I’m proud to introduce this legislation that will help promote better-coordinated care for seniors with multiple chronic health conditions and empower doctors and patients to work together to improve the health of the whole person,” Isakson continued. “I urge my colleagues in the Senate to support this no-cost, bipartisan measure to see to it that seniors enrolled in Medicare will have the opportunity to receive better care at lower cost.”